Usually means: Leg of a right triangle.
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  1. cathetus: Collins English Dictionary
  2. Cathetus: Wordnik
  3. cathetus: Wiktionary
  4. cathetus: Infoplease Dictionary
  5. Cathetus, cathetus: Dictionary.com
  6. Cathetus: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  7. Cathetus: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  8. cathetus: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  9. Cathetus: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  10. cathetus: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  11. cathetus: FreeDictionary.org
  12. Cathetus: TheFreeDictionary.com

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  1. Cathetus: Eric Weisstein's World of Mathematics
  2. cathetus: PlanetMath Encyclopedia

Definitions from Wiktionary (cathetus)

noun:  (geometry) A line perpendicular to a surface (or line); in particular, either of the sides of a right triangle other than its hypotenuse.

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